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@ -508,4 +508,29 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes
* "The future is when somebody turns culture war memes into infrastructure decisions no one can reverse."
* "Divinity isn't necessary, just extremely convenient shorthand for things outside your model of reality."
* "It was never about being right. It was about distributing blame for being wrong in maximally interesting ways."
* "I hope that when AGI finally takes over, it kindly disregards the notes I left in my source code in moments of existential dread."
* "I hope that when AGI finally takes over, it kindly disregards the notes I left in my source code in moments of existential dread."
* "Civilization advances by performing computational tasks so intricate they are indistinguishable from ritual."
* "Making a million mistakes in parallel is just research. Doing it serially is therapy."
* "Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from a denial-of-service attack."
* "learning math is great, because it makes you better at solving the metaphorical problems you'll never face while making you worse at dealing with the literal problems you constantly encounter."
* "Give a man regex, and he’ll have two problems. Teach a man regex, and now he has one really interesting problem."
* "When the octopus really wants to escape its enclosure, it becomes a matter of when, not if."
* "my motivational speaker said I've wasted ten thousand hours learning useless abstract concepts, so I'm clearly an expert now."
* "Eventually someone will figure out the fundamental equation of sociology, and history will abruptly stop being written."
* "people think ai doom is silly and unrealistic, because things like giant asteroids or nuclear annihilation are low-tech, practical ways to doom a species that match our intuitions. assuming hard problems require high-tech solutions is humanity’s main proof it’s bad at risk management."
* "The only reason natural language is tolerated is that the bugs are known and the developer is unreachable."
* "clarity of communication is important because no one has ever successfully guessed what you meant and revealed something good about your intentions in doing so."
* "The internet: a system designed for real-time collaboration by people who hate real-time collaboration."
* "Finance is powered less by risk-tolerance, insight, or computation, and more by fear of having to admit ignorance on quarterly calls."
* "the entire foundation of academia is built on the myth that adding another author to your paper somehow divides the accountability rather than multiplying the confusion."
* "You either live long enough to see yourself mistaken about everything, or else your lifespan ends suspiciously early to avoid embarrassment at having been correct."
* "Admitting you’re wrong is easy and costs just pride, while maintaining you're right at scale requires an elaborate institutional framework."
* "the future of programming languages isn't dependent types or better compilers; it's whichever system can reliably interface between alien intelligences without losing too many subtleties."
* "I refuse to plan things in great detail, because that requires assuming the future exists and reality has not yet earned such trust."
* "People assume solving a big problem once is good; the real test is solving a tiny problem repeatedly and calling the cumulative outcome 'progress.'"
* "The greatest trick complexity ever played was convincing humanity that simplicity would come afterward if we just created more complexity first."
* "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by software deployment pipelines and cached DNS."
* "I regret to inform you: this problem isn’t going away due to recent breakthroughs in convenient denial."
* "if it's worth understanding, you should probably build a hopelessly inadequate simulation and learn it by watching it fail."
* "the world has plenty of room for ideas that are wrong at scale accompanied by models demonstrating convincingly they ought to have been right."
* "after sufficiently advanced performance optimizations, bugs themselves begin to count as features."